AS Lancashire derbies go the one between Burnley and Preston at Turf Moor on Saturday was a classic.

It was the Keane twins who were in the public eye for obvious reasons as they went head-to-head and they had a real battle.

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It was Preston’s Will who took the honours when he left his twin brother Michael in his wake in the 63rd minute to open the scoring for Preston.

I felt that Preston North End’s goalkeeper Jordan Pickford, who was man of the match, made some tremendous saves.

But with the chances we created we should have taken all three points. We created enough, especially in the first half, to win the game.

I’ve said before that if you don’t take your chances you don’t win anything, and this was what happened on Saturday.

Pickford stopped everything thrown at him although Joey Barton should have scored when a great cross came in from George Boyd and left poor Joey thumping the ground in frustration.

I thought the referee Kevin Friend had a bad game.

Preston should have been down to 10 men when Marnick Vermijl didn’t even attempt to play the ball when he impeded Ben Mee when the score was 0-0 early in the second half, and he had already been booked, but the referee just ignored it.

We’ve now not won in four games but on Saturday we created enough to take the points.

Let’s not take any credit away from Preston though. They stuck to their task and went home with the three points, thanks mainly to Pickford.

I should imagine there was a bit of fun in the Keane household on Saturday night, certainly for Will anyway. He earned the bragging rights over Michael.

I know from when I played against my brother Bobby, who was the goalkeeper at Stoke City, and I still remind him about the goals I scored past him. In fact I never let him forget.

In a local derby the result can go any way, but Preston did enough to win it when we weren’t taking our chances, I thought they played well.

There’s a couple of really big games coming up now. It’s QPR away on Saturday. They have a new manager and it’s a difficult place to go, especially as they have Charlie Austin in their side.

Then it’s Middlesbrough away on the Tuesday. They are one of the favourites for promotion for me, they’ve had some really good results so far.

We need to try and get something out of those two games. We can’t let this run go on and lose ground on the top two. We have to stay within touching distance of those automatic promotion spots.